The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine

Kentaro Yoshida, Verena J. Schuenemann, Liliana M. Cano +10

Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans diversity outside…